I want to talk about confidence and how it applies to being a successful developer. But before I do that, I want to talk about Z, a real-time strategy game from the mid-’90s.
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Here at Viget, we’re always looking for ways to reduce duplicated effort, and one component that nearly every single one of our applications needs is an admin interface. As such, we’ve spent a lot of time trying to find the perfect drop-in admin interface generator. We’ve been happy with Typus for the past year or two and have been able to contribute back to the project on a number of occasions. Lately, though, a pair of new libraries have been making some noise: ActiveAdmin and RailsAdmin. How do they stack up to Typus? Read on, friend.
Last week I tweeted:
Convert a method to a lambda in Ruby: lambda(&method(:events_path)). OR JUST USE JAVASCRIPT.
It might not be clear what I was talking about or why it would be useful, so allow me to elaborate. Say you’ve got the following bit of Javascript:
var ytmnd = function() {
alert("you're the man now " + (arguments[0] || "dog"));
};
I've been working on a lot of non-Rails projects lately. At some point during the buildout process, I start spending a fair amount of time uploading my changes to one of our testing servers. I love Panic's Transmit FTP program to death, but repeatedly FTPing files gets dull after a while.
I needed a better system. So I wrote one.
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Short Version: the easiest way to combine and minify static assets (CSS and Javascript) in your Rails 3 app running on Heroku is to use AssetPackager with this fork of Heroku Asset Packager. It just works.
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